The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

zee Chin and Shear Lam have CO.
partnership notice in another column.
Twelve passengers have already engaged
passage for San Francisco on the barken-
tine S. n. Castle. e.
The usual prayer meeting at the yestry
of the Fort-street Church this evening.
Rev. DR.. Beckwith will lead
The Police Court was crowded with Chi
nese yesterday afternoon to hear one of
their countrymen tried on charge of rob-
berry.
The California Market, King street, is
receiving to-day supply of celebrated
mountain sweet melons. Everybody should
buy.
The British bark Iron Crag left for San
Francisco yesterday afternoon with a full
cargo of domestic produce and a small
mail.
There will be the usual services at st.
Andrews Cathedral this evening at 7:30
o'clock, conducted by the Rev Alex. Mack
intosh.
Twenty-six persons left by the steamer
M1kahala yesterday for an excursion
around the island of Kauai. They will re-
turn Sunday.
If you want to have a good sea bath,
take the bus and go out to the Waikiki
bath house. Every accommodation will
be found there.
At 10 o'clock this morning Mr.. Lewis J.
Levey will sell the household furniture at
the residence OF Mr.. julius II. Smith,
Beretania street.
Miss Jane Albro, Government school
teacher on the island of Lanai, and Mr..
Lehua last evening.
A special meeting of the members of
Engine Company No. , will be held this
evening, when a Foreman and Assistant
Foreman will be elected
A choice lot of Bartlett pears, fresh off
the ice, will be opened up to-day at the
California market King street. Call early
to prevent disappointment.
The Honolulu Almanac and Directory
for 1887 is now on sale at J. H. Soper's
and A. NJ. Hewett's news depots, and al
this Office. Price, 80 cents.
Frank May, who was recently sentenced
to a term OF imprisonment and fined for
selling liquor without license, has APP
pealed. and is now out on bail.
On Saturday next Mr.. Lewis J. Levey
will hold an assignees' sale of valuable real
estate 1t will include FIVE pieces Of Land
and a fish pond at Eva, and also the Ka-
pena homestead situate on Nuuanu av-
enue. Full particulars in an advertise
ment
Yesterday afternoon q meeting of the
Ward committees and the Central ExecU-
tive Committee was held in the Chamber
of Commerce room. 1t was called with re-
gard to the delegates, as there seemed to
be some slight misunderstanding as to
their position. A resolution was passed
which covered the difficulty.
The S. F. Call" of July Goth says that
Christian F. Wolfe of Honolulu presented a
petition to the Superior Court to be a.
lowed to adopt Ella Lawson, aged 5, both
of whose parents are dead, and promising
that she will become heir to his property
by such adoption. The request was
granted and the child will henceforth lie
known as Ethel Wolfe.
The Sisters of St. Andrews Priory gave
a picnic at Waikiki yesterday afternoon
to those pupils remaining at the school
through the holidays and few friends.
The whole party went out and returned in
a four-horse bus. They amused themselves
with sea bathing and strolling around, and
returned home a little before O'Clock,
after having had a delightful time.